3.3. Sedimentation Rate
Sedimentation rate of the sediment from this study in the Za Hajovnou cave is not known. We compared the thickness of transition section of our study (cm) with the thickness of transition section of other studies (cm) and estimated the sedimentation rate. Let n be the ratio between the two data sets which shows how thick or thin the transition section of previous study compared to our study (Equation 1.1, 1.2). This, we can estimate the sedimentation rate of Za Hajovnou (Equation 1.2). In equations, tso is the transition section thickness from our study (in cm), tsp is transition section thickness of published study (in cm), srp is sedimentation rate of published study (in cm/kyr), sro is sedimentation rate of our study (in cm/kyr).
Equations;
\begin{equation} \text{tso\ }\left(\text{cm}\right)\ x\ n\ =\ tsp\ \left(\text{cm}\right)\text{\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ }\ \left(1.1\right)\nonumber \\ \end{equation}\begin{equation} \text{srp\ }(cm/kyr)/\ n=sro\ (cm/kyr)\ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ (1.2)\nonumber \\ \end{equation}
Then, Za Hajovnou sedimentation rate ranges between 0.07-1.40 cm/kyr. Dropping the highest (1.41 cm/kyr) and lowest (0.066 cm/kyr) values gives rate between (0.2 cm/kyr – 1.0 cm/kyr) Sedimentation rate estimates are shown in Table 2 compared with other studies.
Table 2: Sedimentation rate estimations for Za Hajovnou from previous studies.
*: Sedimentation rate estimation for Za Hajovnou.